Crossword-Solution: STALE 5 letters, 349 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Stale	n.	The stock or handle of anything; as, the stale of a rake.
Stale	v. i.	Vapid or tasteless from age; having lost its life, spirit, and flavor, from being long kept; as, stale beer.
Stale	v. i.	Not new; not freshly made; as, stele bread.
Stale	v. i.	Having lost the life or graces of youth; worn out; decayed.
Stale	v. i.	Worn out by use or familiarity; having lost its novelty and power of pleasing; trite; common.
Stale	v. t.	To make vapid or tasteless; to destroy the life, beauty, or use of; to wear out.
Stale	a.	To make water; to discharge urine; -- said especially of horses and cattle.
Stale	v. i.	That which is stale or worn out by long keeping, or by use.
Stale	v. i.	A prostitute.
Stale	v. i.	Urine, esp. that of beasts.
Stale	v. t.	Something set, or offered to view, as an allurement to draw others to any place or purpose; a decoy; a stool pigeon.
Stale	v. t.	A stalking-horse.
Stale	v. t.	A stalemate.
Stale	v. t.	A laughingstock; a dupe.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
STALE	anagram	ALTES, ASTEL, ASTLE, ATLES, ELAST, ETALS, LAETS, LATES, LEAST, LEATS, LETAS, SALET, SETAL, SLATE, SLEAT, STAEL, STEAL, STELA, TAELS, TALES, TEALS, TELAS, TELSA, TESLA, TSAEL

We have 349 clues for the answer “STALE”

Clue	Answers
" . . . nor custom ___ her infinite variety."	1 answer
"How weary, ___, flat . . . "	1 answer
"How weary, ___, flat and unprofitable . . . "	1 answer
"___, flat and unprofitable."	1 answer
All played out	1 answer
Best bread for stuffing	1 answer
Days-old	1 answer
Descriptive of yesterday's news.	1 answer
Dry, as bread	1 answer
Dusty, fusty or musty	1 answer
Flat and tasteless	1 answer
Flat from overuse	1 answer
Flat, as a soda	1 answer
Flat, as cola	1 answer
Flat, as pop	1 answer
Flat, as soda	1 answer
Flat, like beer	1 answer
Fresh no more	1 answer
Fresh? Don't make me laugh	1 answer
Hard, as bread	1 answer
Hardened, maybe	1 answer
Hardly novel.	1 answer
Having lost effervescence	1 answer
Humdrum, as humor	1 answer
In need of an update	1 answer
In need of freshening	1 answer
In need of refreshing	1 answer
In need of updating	1 answer
Kind of bread for crumbs	1 answer
Kind of bread or joke	1 answer
Lacking creativity	1 answer
Lacking in novelty	1 answer
Lacking in originality	1 answer
Lacking new ideas	1 answer
Lacking originality, as a joke	1 answer
Less than fresh	1 answer
Like Cheez-Its that have lost some crunch	1 answer
Like Halloween candy in December	1 answer
Like a beaten-to-death joke	1 answer
Like a day-old baguette	1 answer
Like a rock-hard roll	1 answer
Like a tough cookie?	1 answer
Like an old bagel	1 answer
Like an old bialy	1 answer
Like an old cigar	1 answer
Like an old loaf	1 answer
Like an overused joke	1 answer
Like bagels that aren't put away	1 answer
Like bread for French toast, ideally	1 answer
Like bread for pigeons	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

EREAT

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with STALE (5)

Yer teeth baint half gone yet; and what’s a old man’s standing if so be his teeth baint gone? Weren’t I stale in wedlock afore ye were out of arms? ’Tis a poor thing to be sixty, when there’s people far past four-score—a boast weak as water.” It was the unvarying custom in Weatherbury to sink minor differences when the maltster had to be pacified.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Where graceful youth should have filled their features out, and touched them with its freshest tints, a stale and shrivelled hand, like that of age, had pinched, and twisted them, and pulled them into shreds.

A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 1992

The streets were narrow, tortuous, and mostly evil-smelling, with a mixture of stale fish and damp cellar odours.

The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993

Next they got their marbles and played “knucks” and “ringtaw” and “keeps” till that amusement grew stale.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993

Though one of the most inveterate smokers I ever met with, he gave up his cigar, because she said, one day, she hated the stale smell of it in his clothes.

The Moonstone Wilkie Collins 1994

Quotes with STALE (3)

If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.

Nicholas Sparks

My Creed I do not choose to be a common man, It is my right to be uncommon … if I can, I seek opportunity … not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen. Humbled and dulled by having the State look after me. I want to take the calculated risk; To dream and to build. To fail and to succeed. I refuse to barter incentive for a dole; I prefer the challenges of life To the guaranteed existence; The thrill of fulfillment To the stale calm of Utopia. I will not trade freedom for…

Dean Alfange

The pity of it was that this discovery, if such it was, now seemed so stale, so profitless to me. What good was it? What good did thinking ever do?

Jed Rubenfeld The Interpretation of Murder

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 647 times in crossword archives (1945–2025).